The Scaffold

[Verse 1]

In Orient where wise I was

To please the way I live

Come give the beggar chance at hand

His life is on his lip

Three score a thousand times

Where once in Amazon

Where Eldorado holds the key

No keeper holds my hand

[Pre-Chorus]

Unchain the gate of solitude

The ruler says you run

Run hard unto the scaffold high

Your chance to jump the gun

[Chorus] [x2]

Oh how high the scaffold grows

The plant life of your widow

In black lace curtains brought you near

From out the plate glass window

[Verse 2]

The Minotaur with bloody hands

Is enraged by the sun

Caged he by the corpses

Brought forth by the dawn

In Orient is as I told

The buckshee hangman swears

For open crypts to silence

Nylon knots to sway by prayer

[Pre-Chorus]

Unchain the gate of solitude

The ruler says you run

Run hard unto the scaffold high

Your chance to jump the gun

[Chorus] [x2]

Oh how high the scaffold grows

The plant life of your widow

In black lace curtains brought you near

From out the plate glass window

[Outro]

In Orient where wise I was

To please the way I live

Come give the beggar chance at hand

His life is on his lip